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...After 26 years of crafting catered chalet holidays with childcare, the company knows that it’s the little things — complimentary nappies, free babysitting on the chalet chef’s weekly night off and quiet...
...Sustainable materials have been used throughout, from reclaimed metal floor tiles to timber floors sawed from naturally fallen trees on the Windsor Estate....
...The Timber Creek ruling relates to an A$2.9m award for the loss of 1.26 sq km of land in a town in Northern Territory....
...Weyerhaeuser has agreed to acquire Plum Creek Timber for about $8.4bn, in a real estate deal that will create the largest private owner of timberland in the US....
...It will pay nearly $11bn, including $2.3bn in net debt, for its peer Plum Creek Timber, in an all-share deal....
...He noted that in one instance in 2005 at Plum Creek, the timber company now owned by Weyerhauser, a shareholder proposal was struck down on the day with less than 6 per cent support — even though the raw...
...The Save Shem Creek Corporation is an example of a vociferous community group rallying against a number of proposed builds in the area....
...As I started to look harder, the names got even better: Lousy Creek, Mosquito Creek, Dead Fish Billabong....
...Another North American timber home designed to blend in with its environment is Stone Creek Camp in Bigfork, Montana, by Texas architects Andersson-Wise....
...Erhard Rom has designed a convincing timber-walled recreation of New Hope Valley, Tennessee, in the 1930s. sfopera.com...
...In 2005 Surly, a bike company based in Minnesota, offered the first large-scale production fatbike, the Pugsley....
...In the last six months alone, Weyerhaeuser, which grows and harvests timber to be manufactured into lumber, and Plum Creek, one of the largest timber landowners in the US, have seen their shares rise 35...
...When the local water company sought to dam Redwood Creek and destroy the canyon, Kent sidestepped the action by giving the forest to the federal government....
...If you need to hire a bike, local companies can drop you off with one at the start and pick you up at the end....
...At the end of the beach and on the mouth of the creek – in a prime position where a boutique hotel would stand if we were in any other part of the world – is a spectacularly sited police post....
...But Plum Creek, with 8m acres across 18 states, can call off the lumberjacks. Similar to petroleum producers, timber companies reduce output when pricing dips....
...These include forest product companies, paper packagers, and timber real-estate investment trusts. All of the companies own and manage their own forest land....
...In its US ski spots the company has four to 10 properties at each resort: wood-panelled ski lodges with log fires, cosy upholstery and hot tubs sunk into private outdoor decks....
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